Check all the GitHub repositories that you want to access issues from.

Select Finish.

Open the Task Repositories view to browse the newly added task repositories and add queries or create new tasks.

Issues

Queries

GitHub issue task repositories support creating queries that filter by the following fields:

State (open or closed)

Milestones

Mentions

Assignee

Labels

Note that when multiple filters are used in the same query the returned issues match all of the filters.

Gists

Creating

Gists can be created by selecting text in a editor or files in an explorer and selecting the Create Gist context menu. A Gist will be created in a background job and a notification popup will display after the Gist has been created.

Queries

Gist queries only support filtering by a specified GitHub user name.

Gist Editor

The task editor for Gists supports the following:

Updating the description

Commenting

Opening the files in a gist

Adding new files to the gist

Replacing the content of a file currently in the gist

Cloning the gist to a local Eclipse project

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Does the connector support GitHub API tokens?

No, API tokens are no longer supported by the newest GitHub API which the connector uses for requests.